Jade Jagger's white haven in Ibiza

On the party island of Ibiza, Jade Jagger and her family have made a peaceful
haven for themselves in their newly revamped 400-year-old finca.

The garden is based on an Islamic design. It uses Moroccan tiles and is planted with roses and lavender. ‘I was in my mid-20s for the first refurb,’ Jagger says. ‘We hacked back the scrub and did a lot of landscaping and planting, and discovered these lovely terraces and paths down to what is now the pool.’ (LUKE WHITE)Photo: Luke White

By Ruth Corbett

7:00AM BST 27 Aug 2014

Adrian Fillary has a new-dad aura about him – part exhaustion, part elation. He rocks his one-month-old son, Ray, in the kitchen of the Ibiza home he shares with his wife, Jade Jagger, who pads in barefoot and relaxed as we chat. She has done this before, of course. The daughter of the Rolling Stones frontman, Mick Jagger, and the Nicaraguan human rights advocate Bianca Jagger has two daughters from her previous relationship with the artist Piers Jackson. The elder, Assisi, is 22 and gave birth to her daughter, Ezra, a few weeks before Ray was born. You wouldn’t know it to talk to her, but Jagger feels ‘slightly blown away by everything’.

Fillary, Jagger and Ray arrived in Ibiza a week before my visit and are settling into the finca Jagger bought in 1998, which has just undergone an overhaul. On the north side of the island, in San Juan, it is well clear of the usual tourist trail and party scene and retains a rural charm.

‘Friends kept telling me I would love Ibiza, but I had all these ideas that it was a just party island,’ Jagger recalls. ‘I never imagined the untouched beauty and the village life that still goes on.’This is where the family comes to relax when not at home in London or travelling (Jagger’s work as a jewellery designer often takes her to Goa, where she has a studio).

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The finca, built about 400 years ago, was abandoned when she bought it. ‘It was super-basic, romantic and charming,’ she says. ‘The road was just a wiggly, windy track up from the village.’ A framed photograph of the house as it was then hangs in the kitchen, and one can see that even after multiple makeovers, today it is merely an enhancement of the original. Strict conservation laws limit what can be done to the exterior of the building, and its footprint has not changed for centuries.

That is not to say that Jagger has not made her mark. To create its latest incarnation, rooms have been rearranged, additional bathrooms installed and the kitchen redesigned and migrated from one side of the house to the other. New windows have been fitted to protect from the elements, which Jagger explains ‘get a bit mad, whatever the season’.

Though Jagger is the creative director of Jade Jagger for Yoo, part of the residential-design brand Yoo, the redesign was a team effort. Fillary, a graphic designer, shares her passion. ‘Being married to someone who loves sketching things out and moving sofas around is amazing,’ she says.

The result of their efforts is a step forward for the luxe-bohemian style Jagger is known for. In the ground-floor living room modular sofas are teamed with textiles from Jaipur and Venetian mirrors. Vibrant colours pop against whitewashed walls. The house has a hippie-meets-disco vibe – indeed disco balls are suspended about the pool.

The couple have also embraced the idea of upcycling. ‘We have reused curtains, re-covered sofas and made doors out of old decking plank,’ Jagger says. ‘While I cringe at the word “eclectic”, I hate to be too prescriptive. I’ve tried not to get too “interior designer” about it all.’

Adjacent to the living room is the new iroko kitchen, designed by Jagger and her long-time design collaborator, Tom Bartlett, with appliances by the ultra-high-end brand Electrolux Grand Cuisine. ‘It’s my big indulgence,’ Jagger says. ‘But whether I’m cooking or eating, food is my focus.’

The couple’s bedroom is where one of the most dramatic changes has been made: the space was once a rooftop terrace. ‘The house overlooks preserved parkland, and you can’t do anything that might mar the view,’ Jagger says. ‘I look out and see something that hasn’t changed for 400 years.’

Though this is a place to escape to, work never seems far away. Emails from Jagger’s London office ping into her laptop with remorseless regularity. ‘That’s the trouble with Wi-Fi,’ she says, laughing. ‘Once you have it, it’s hard to switch it off.’ None the less, the beach bag is packed in anticipation of a sunset swim before supper, and they are off.

The pool

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The pool, with a leafy palm tree at each corner, glitter balls and sparkly sunshades, was designed by Jagger and Tom Bartlett. The daybeds were bought locally.

The living room

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The living room is home to a diverse range of furnishings, including a rug by Vikram Kapoor, bought in India, an L-shaped sofa and side tables by B&B Italia (bebitalia.com) and a bespoke Heathfield sofa by Joanna Plant Interiors (joannaplantinteriors.com), which was bought for Jagger by Jerry Hall more than 20 years ago. ‘I’ll never get rid of it. I’ve covered that sofa about 17 times,’ Jagger says. In a playful throwback to 1970s interiors, one wall is mirrored. A vintage cabinet from Les Couilles du Chien (lescouillesduchien.com), in Notting Hill, is filled with pieces from Jagger’s jewellery collections. The Antler coffee table is from Guinevere (guinevere.co.uk). The Crow painting is by Piers Jackson (piersjackson.co.uk).

The kitchen

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The kitchen is kitted out with an Electrolux Grand Cuisine professional cooking system designed for domestic kitchens (grandcuisine.com). The iroko cupboards were designed by Jagger and Tom Bartlett and made locally. Whitewashed walls and tile flooring help keep the kitchen and dining area cool in summer.

The dining area

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The orange dining table is part of the Colors range by Bruno Fattorini for MDF Italia (available from viaduct.co.uk). It is teamed with vintage dining chairs by Giò Ponti. A large rose petal mandala painting by Jagger and a piece by Peter Blake hang on either side of the wooden double front doors.

The bedrooms

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What was once an outdoor terrace has recently been covered and turned into Jagger and Fillary’s bedroom(top). On the first floor, it has spectacular sunset views. Original beams run the width of the room, adding warm rusticity. Antique textiles and rugs bought in Rajasthan on Jagger’s many trips to India adorn the four-poster bed, which was made by a local carpenter to a design by Jagger and Tom Bartlett. The chevron flooring (also in the main bathroom) is made from locally bought tiles. The bedside and round tables are vintage pieces. The artworks are by Peter Blake and Grillo Demo, an Argentine artist and friend of Jagger’s, who lives in Ibiza. In a guest room is another four-poster and a marble-topped Tulip table by Eero Saarinen for Knoll (knoll-int.com).

The bathroom

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Jagger and Fillary’s en-suite bathroom features a vintage Venetian-style mirror. The contemporary teak bath, shelf and vanity unit were made by a local carpenter.